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Turkey, which hosts this week’s NATO summit, has the alliance’s second-largest army. Its strategic role in a US-dominated world order has long outweighed any concerns about its lack of democratic standards.

The backbreaking toil of the sanitation worker is the work that makes all of human civilization possible.

How EACOP's Promises Failed to Restore Livelihoods in Rural Tanzania

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Pope Leo excommunicated four newly consecrated bishops last week, members of the conservative Society of Saint Pius X. Their movement represents a broader traditionalist reaction in the Catholic church, fueled by Christian nationalists in the US and beyond.

The National Black Empowerment Council presents itself as a voice for black communities. Its funding, alliances, and political strategy suggest a different mission: expanding pro-Israel conservative influence within black political institutions.

Since October 7, academic institutions have applied overt and covert pressure to discourage Holocaust and genocide scholars from criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza. Still, many academics are organizing new networks to defend free inquiry.

Online gambling operators are no longer selling the promise of luxury but the promise of stability. Through fake Reddit accounts, they peddle stories of groceries bought and rent paid, all supposedly made possible by a lucky break.

Video: Ian Angus speaking at the Canadian launch of Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System

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In Serbia, the connivance between politicians and multinational capital has fed a sustained protest movement. Current protests in Albania, resisting a luxury development project backed by Jared Kushner, target a similar cronyish capitalism.

France’s political elites have made vague criticisms of Benjamin Netanyahu but refused to denounce the genocide in Gaza. Now left-wing lawmaker Rima Hassan has been dragged to trial because she defends Palestinians’ right to resist occupation.

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He built a fund to elect socialists, cross-party. By May its map was a Green ward list, 191 nameless.

He built a fund to elect socialists, cross-party. By May its map was a Green ward list, 191 nameless.

by Franklin Frederick

Defying Empire: Cuba’s Contributions to the Fight Against Racism              and White Supremacy   The white capitalist cannibal has always fed on the world’s black peoples. White capitalist imperialist society is profoundly and unmistakably racist. Walter Rodney   White supremacy and racism cannot be dissociated from capitalism. It was racism and white supremacy that provided the cultural justifications for slavery and the concomitant slave trade, for European colonial expansion and imperialism, without which capitalism would not have developed. Racism and white supremacy also permeate the various hierarchies imposed by the capitalist system and which are fundamental to its maintenance. This intrinsic […]

by Alejandra García Elizalde

Solidarity makes no noise. It doesn’t always make the headlines. It doesn’t change the course of an earthquake. But it changes the way people navigate the darkness. And while Venezuela continues to hope for more miracles amid the ruins, Cuba once again steps up, just as it has so many times before.

by La Línea

These general elections in Peru were not held under conditions of a healthy democracy. On the contrary, the electoral landscape had been rigged beforehand by the coup-making and mafia coalition that, since December 7, 2022, captured the branches of state power.

by Jenin M

At the annual conference of the American Medical Association, activists from CODEPINK urged physicians to speak out for Palestinian pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been held in Israeli detention for over 500 days without charge. This article examines the response of the AMA leadership and staff, contrasts it with the organization's earlier support for healthcare workers in Ukraine, and reflects on the broader silence surrounding the destruction of Gaza's healthcare system and the detention of Palestinian medical professionals. It also documents efforts by activists and sympathetic delegates to bring the issue before the AMA.

by Thomas Ultican

Billionaire funded "research" aims to push American education back to the dark days of No Child Left Behind.

Nuke bros (and gals) speak in forked tongues as they extoll each other's virtues

THE SUPREME COURT ruled on June 30 that President Trump could not end birthright citizenship by Executive Order. In practical terms, the Court upheld the plain language of the 14th Amendment that children born in the United States are and remain U.S. citizens at birth, While the vote was 6 to 3, Vice President JD… Continue reading Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship — for now